Elizabeth City, NC, USA
Out for a smoke, noticed the triangluar shaped craft about a mile up in sky that made sudden turns and reversed unlike any aircraft .
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-03
- Where
- Elizabeth City, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 mins
- Geo
- 36.295, -76.251 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-elizabeth-city-nc-2012-47f82a
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Elizabeth City, NC.
- This case is one of 249 North Carolina reports filed in 2012.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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